[Ilugc] Locked Root password, Debian 5 refuses to go into single user mode
- From: roshan@xxxxxxxxx (Roshan George)
- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:57:36 +0530
On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 05:53 +0000, Arun Khan wrote:
No worries - just be calm, come up with a strategy and I am sure
things will work out.
Success of the suggestions will depend on the competency of the VPS
providers tech support.
Unless this is a production server, if all else fails you can refresh
the VPS image I suppose.
My two cents.
Thank you for the information about the VMWare Disk Images, Arun. I was
just parroting what the tech support guys told me. I'm glad to hear that
if all else fails I can probably just have them mail me the image for me
to get what I need out.
You were right with your guess that I was attempting to mimic Ubuntu's
method of dealing with root privileges. It seemed elegant at the time,
but obviously there were holes in the way I handled it.
My backups are a week or two out of date, so I'd really love to have the
files back but it's not something I can't recover from. I've forwarded
Raja Subramanian's detailed and helpful reply to the people there and
I'm fairly hopeful now.
Regards,
--
Roshan George <roshan at arjie.com>
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